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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The Migrant Worker and the Goddess -Tapati Guha-Thakurta

The Migrant Worker and the Goddess -Tapati Guha-Thakurta

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published Published on Oct 30, 2020   modified Modified on Nov 1, 2020

-Newsclick.in

The plight of the migrant worker exploded as a repeating theme in Puja pandals across Kolkata at a time when the central government made its scandalous declaration in Parliament about its “lack of data” about the number of workers who had perished, evading all its responsibility and obligations.

Much ink has been spilt over this past week on this sculptural tableau of goddess Durga and her children as a migrant worker family. In the build-up to this year’s delayed Durga Puja, just as the image (then still being shaped in the sculptor’s studio) made its appearance on the first page of Kolkata’s newspapers, it went viral on social media. It created a new trend of a Durga Puja image becoming “an internet sensation”. This was fully in keeping with the times.

This year, as civil society, doctors and the Calcutta High Court came together to curb crowds and made all Puja pandals “no-entry” zones for spectators, the Pujas per force became a television and online viewing experience. So this Durga, like all others of the season, had her main life in virtual images. But none other quite stole the show like the creation by the Krishnanagar sculptor, Pallab Bhowmick, and “theme” artist, Rintu Das (of a migrant woman with her children), installed at the Barisha Club Puja in Behala, in the deep south-west of Kolkata. Endlessly circulated and forwarded by many who may never have toured the city’s Durga Pujas and seen its many forms of thematic installations, she invited a constant flow of opinions in online networks.

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Newsclick.in, 30 October, 2020, https://www.newsclick.in/the-migrant-worker-goddess?fbclid=IwAR3cCx6rIg3aW7oohKpquM_Ablel1CKiDu6jEuuN96SdndALvnOVIN4SHA8


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